NEW PLAY TUESDAY 01.17.2023
This week's New Play Tuesday is about Gina Femia, playwright of I F@#*king Hate Shakespeare, This Happened Once at the Romance Depot Off the I-87 in Westchester, The Violet Sisters, and more.
Gina’s a New Georges Affiliated Artist and has received residencies with Page73, Powerhouse, NTI at the O’Neill, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Fresh Ground Pepper. Gina's work has been seen/developed at MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Page 73, Playwrights’ Center, CTG, Theater of NOTE, Panndora Productions, among others.
"[Their] plays have been produced all over the world, and they are only improving in quality."
- Community Spotlight on
staff pick: cavan hallman
Beyond being a major fan of this super-talented writer, I appreciate the personal approach Gina takes to critiquing Shakespeare. As a new play advocate, I have my own Shakespeare gripes, mainly having to do with the way American theatre simultaneously fetishizes and abuses his texts - calling them the greatest things ever put on paper and then never actually doing the plays as written.
This is a powerful piece of theatre that will speak to folks who know Shakespeare well, but requires absolutely no prior knowledge of those famous works. I can't wait for you to join us!
featuring: special guest
LYZ LENZ
Joe Biden once called her a “real sweetheart.”
Alan Dershowitz called her “fifth rate.”
The Iowa GOP called her “Crass and unprofessional.”
Lyz Lenz lives in Iowa with her two kids and two dogs and one cat.
Her writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, The Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, Pacific Standard, and others. She writes a regular newsletter, Men Yell At Me, where she explores the intersection of politics and our bodies in red state America.
